Replication files for "Ballot Reform, the Personal Vote, and Political Representation in the United States"British Journal of Political ScienceDaniel J. Moskowitz and Jon C. RogowskiIn order to replicate the analyses in the paper, please ensure that you have set the working directory to the appropriate folder where you have saved the data files. Additionally, within that directory, you should create two subfolders called "tables" and "figs" where the program below will save the tables (.tex) and figures (.pdf) from the paper. Within the "tables" subfolder, you should create a "fragments" subsubfolder in which table fragments for stacked tables will be saved.


The replication archive contains one program (all analyses are consolidated into this script):Moskowitz_Reogowski_BJPolS_replication.do -- This program does the following:
   + reads in data from state_level_data.dta and performs all state-level analyses
   + reads in data from district_level_data.dta and performs all House district-level analyses
   + produces all tables and figures contained in the paper and online appendix


The replication archive contains the following data sets (additional information on the data sources is available in the online appendix):

state_level_data.dta -- State-level data set containing outcomes measured at the state level (i.e., measures of pensions, post offices, and rivers & harbors).

district_level_data.dta -- District-level data set containing outcomes measured at the House district level (i.e., district-level measure of rivers & harbors, private bill sponsorship, roll-call participation rate, floor speeches, party unity scores, responsiveness, discretion in roll-call voting)